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This day and age it is very important that we ensure that border control is secure and therefore essential that no unauthorised travellers enter the country. This is where the Border Management Solutions from ARINC facilitate improved airport operations and border security whilst offering competitive pricing.

It is a legal responsibility of airline carriers that migration laws and regulations are adhered to and therefore a necessity to be aware of and comply with a wide range of legislation and regulations relating to national border control procedure and admittance. Failure to supply API and interactive API (IAPI) airlines can end up with huge fines.

Therefore, Messaging for Government Mandated Authority to Carry requests and responses and Advance Passenger Information is vital. With a flat monthly fee, whole service or charge per flight ARINC makes things simple and easy to ensure manageable costs.

ARINC controls the world’s largest private global network with a highly secure and reliable service that is competitively priced. For more info: electronicborders.com

In Focus: Understanding Type B Messaging

September 5, 2012

ARINC have developed a consultancy service to help understand Type B Messaging. By using their message calculator tool on their website it is possible to ascertain immediately an idea of the size of potential saving can be seen. ARINC can decrease Messaging costs, simplify IT and communication setups and foresee future needs by working with their clients in a consultative manner.

Having 80 years of aviation communications experience, ARINC understands Type B. They work with airlines in consultation on current messaging environment and give a clear understanding of how Type B is being used, with a view of how an improvement can be made. They also look to the future, offering alternative methods of message delivery where appropriate. This is all reported to the client for a comprehensive business case.

Recommendations will cover use of alternative techniques such as the internet, XML, or SOAP. Airlines will be able to reuse and optimise existing internet infrastructure, which will cut down on high cost leased technology.

Due to security mandates, increased passenger data etc. the impact of Type B costs have greatly increased. ARINC are dedicated to reducing costs and are confident an analysis will provide immediate savings.

Find out more by viewing the website: typebcheck.com

In Focus: Next generation passenger connectivity from ARINC

September 3, 2012

Today we are focusing on the brilliant facility of the Cabin Connect Suite offered from ARINC for both passengers and air crew. Cabin Connect has next generation connectivity and enhanced bandwidth provided by a partnership between ARINC and SwiftBroadband.

SwiftBroadband is one of the best, maximum cost effective, global, packet switched satellite communications networks available today. With a combined aviation experience of over 100 years airlines can make the most of the technical expertise of two industry leaders, ARINC and Inmarsat SwiftBroadband.

With ARINC’s Cabin Connect Solution passengers can surf the internet using their own electronic devices which can promote passenger loyalty to your services. In turn Cabin Crew can become more efficient by offering a better level of customer service by using ARINC’s AirCrew Connect. For those key passengers, Cabin crew can now act as a concierge service. They would be able to remedy customer service issues straight away by having a direct link back to the head office, or ground team whilst in flight and experience an increase in operational the efficiencies.

For additional information please visit: cabinconnect.aero

Jet Expo 2012

September 2, 2012

This year it is Moscow-based Vnukovo 3 aviation terminal hosting the Jet Expo 2012, featuring some 100 companies from 27 countries.

Today’s trend in the market is high-pace development, especially taking into account that most jets are now used not to fly their owners on holidays but to business meetings, deal signings or large corporation inspections.

Photo: AFP

The Jet Expo showcases aircraft with great versatility and design. Bombardier, who have been operating in Russia for a long time, and consider the country a vital and key market brought four of its new business jets.

Italy’s Piaggio Aero is showcasing its new Piaggio P180Avanti twin-engine turboprop aircraft with a Ferrai logo which is often called Aero Ferrari.

158 business jets are registered in Russia and experts predict 525 jets to be imported up to 2020, while in 2021-2030 the number of jets is forecast to reach 1,700 machines.

Mobile Flight Planning Solutions

September 1, 2012

Whilst looking at various business aviation products I came across a service from ARINC Direct that allows pilots to use mobile devices to access flight planning services – ARINC Direct Mobile. Pilots are able to manage most of the flight planning without a computer. They can create, amend or cancel a flight plan as well as send messages to and fro from the aircraft with the reliability we would insist on.

With these mobile devices pilots have access to real time text and graphic weather reports, are able to order fuel, have radar and have access to airport information -getting the most up to date information available for flight planning.

ARINC Direct Business Aviation Solutions is known world over to be the most capable company in the industry to provide private jet owners and operators with a level of innovation, technology and service. We can rest assured when we use the services from ARINC Direct for passenger & crew communications and flight support services of a first class service.

For more info: business-flight-support.com

Airline IT Trends Survey 2012 – Key facts and figures

This week I wanted to share a few of the interesting facts and figures found of the executive summary of the Airline IT Trends Survey 2012.

Airlines are more guarded about their outlook for 2013, taking into account a significant economic downside risk. Almost half of the airlines surveyed are still expecting their absolute IT spend to rise. However, the percentage of airlines anticipating growth in IT spending has decreased over the last three years.

For a second consecutive year, mobile services for passengers tops the list of investment programs for airlines, with six out of ten planning major investments in the next three years.

Airlines are continuing to expand their ticket distribution through direct channels. Emerging sales channels such as mobile and social media will have a significant impact on future growth in direct sales.

In the past, selling on an airline’s website has been crucial to driving the transition to direct distribution. Although sales through airline websites will continue to see growth, selling via smart phones is set to become an almost equally important sales channel in the future.

Nine out of ten airlines are planning to sell tickets via mobile phones by 2015, establishing mobile as a mainstream distribution channel for airline tickets. Growing from zero just a few years ago, mobile phones as a distribution channel are expected to generate significant growth in years to come.

Kiosks will continue to play a significant role, with ¾ of airlines increasing the number of check-in kiosks. When it comes to new functionality, however, opinions are split. About half of the respondents do not plan to deploy kiosks for flight transfer or lost baggage reporting. Only 39% of airlines believe kiosks will remain one of the dominant channels to process passengers in the future, highlighting that mobile phones and websites are set to play a more important role for passenger operations in the long-term.

Nine out of ten airlines plan to engage with passengers through mobiles by 2015, and the adoption of new services provided on mobile phones is speeding up. Airlines believe that smart phones can support most, if not all, customer facing interactions including customer service, commerce, in-flight entertainment and passenger processing.

Realise the potential of next generation passenger connectivity

ARINC are offering airlines the next generation of passenger connectivity and personal electronic device support with their product Cabin Connect.

ARINC work in partnership with Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband solution to deliver enhanced bandwidth so that airline passengers can now surf the internet, send and receive email, and use universal messaging all through their own portable electronic device, be that laptop, tablet computer e.g. iPad or Playbook, smart phone or portable gaming devices.

ARINC Cabin Connect SwiftBroadband

Alongside this ARINC offer AirCrew connect, a solution offering cabin crew connectivity to allow crew to become more efficient and offer a better level of customer service to passengers inflight. Cabin crew can now act as a concierge service for those important passengers, can collect real time CRM data as well as active fault finding and reporting. Anything that can be done on paper can now be logged and sent while inflight, allowing airlines to enjoy increased operational efficiencies.

Thanks to AirCrew Connect it is also possible to do real time fault finding, providing increased efficiencies as any issues with the IFE or onboard systems can either be remedied in flight (dependent upon the airline’s IFE hardware provider) or engineers can be booked to be waiting on stand for the aircraft to arrive at its destination, thus decreasing the amount of downtime the airframe requires.

Supporting various commercial models, ARINC can work with airlines to find the best unique solution to offer to your passengers and crew, creating differentiation and increased value that can help to promote passenger loyalty.

To find out more about the service please visit the ARINC Cabin Connect website.

CommutAir Picks ARINC For Passenger Security Reporting

CommutAir has chosen the ARINC AviNet Global Data Network Solution to transmit crew Advance Passenger Information to ensure adherence with Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) passenger reporting requirements. The new proprietary reporting guidelines were created by CBSA in response to privacy and data quality concerns.

CommutAir said it selected ARINC to create a customized solution that would comply with CBSA’s new Data Acquisition Solution guidelines. On behalf of the carrier, ARINC will perform the required message format and communications protocol conversion to meet CBSA guidelines.

CommutAir is headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont with operations centered in Cleveland, Ohio and Newark, New Jersey. The company provides regular flights into Toronto and between more than 20 cities throughout the Midwestern and Northeastern U.S.

ARINC can examine the aviation messaging needs of any aviation user, and make a quick check of potential savings easily available through an online calculator. ARINC says “We understand Type B messaging better than anyone. That’s why we’ve developed a consultancy service to help you understand it too. Use our message calculator tool to gain an immediate idea of the size of your potential saving and then contact us to confirm the numbers”.

The online calculator can be found at: ARINC Type B Check

Airbus corporate jet on display at Africa Aerospace & Defence Show